TUPELO • Retired Air Force Col. Carlyle “Smitty” Harris, whose capture and subsequent imprisonment during the Vietnam War ...

The Inheritors” ruffled the country club crowd’s feathers in 1940. The late author’s autobiography sheds some light on his life and the city.

Biography of Gospel song and hymn writers by Hall, J.H. (Jacob Henry), 1855-1941 Publication date c1914 Topics Gospel musicians -- United States Biography, Gospel music -- United States, Hymn writers ...

What is valuable in this collection is that by showing the sheer diversity of views on the genre, its power and plentitude ...

International News Photos, wikimedia commons Documentarian and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s forthcoming book is about an ...

Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and ...

Author Ron Chernow, who has penned numerous biographies on historic Americans, spoke at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and ...

Whoever may have told you that nonfiction is boring was either A) reading the wrong books or B) just plain wrong. Autobiographies and memoirs, for instance, are some of the most captivating reads—and ...

Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography captures William F. Buckley Jr. and the political movement that he did so much to ...

A new biography, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson," tells the story of the Black transgender pioneer’s fight on the frontlines of history as a leader in the early LGBTQ rights ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is a classic of literary biography. In “Ellmann’s Joyce,” Zachary Leader delves into the biography and its distinguished creator.